Airbus A400M Ganti C-130 Hercules On The Way..

thenone

99# windof

hehe.. aok rase kalo mas dapat 330 tu agak2 sapa ek yg jd first pelot 330 tu... ehem2.. takkan aok kut bro..

windof

101# thenone

huhuhu..... koi nih kuli jer....

thenone

102# windof

merendahkan diri nampak..

takpe bang win.. kalo betul laa dapat 330-200 tu pree 2 bijik.. koi calonkan aok jadi test pelot yg no. wahid...

tapi kome rase nengok pada keadaan maka takdak harapan laa nak dpt Mistral melalui compensation tersebut, jadinya molek juga kalo dapat pesawat pree..

harleena

harleena

guyfawke

rupa kipas dia lain macam...macam propeller kapal selam pun ada...tapi memang nampak canggih gile la cockpit die...macam ni mahu selalu k/terbang ni 'berjalan2'...

areguard

Dengar kata Mesia dpt harga fixed RM600juta sebiji walaupun lewat jadual

asher

harap2 airbus nie menghargai la penantian kita nie..lagi best kalo bagi discount ker..

rastablank

Lawa seyh Airbus neyh~

harleena

kelana36

Wah, ada head Up Display lagi. Memang canggih.

Design propeller skang dah bertukar, sebab nak bagi laju in the air. Kalau guna conventinal propeller macam F50 tu or C130 speed limit to 250 kts jer, laju pada tu , propeller dah tak effective lagi sebab dah stall, high speed stall. Number of blades yg banyak to ensure more thrust especially at low airspeed.

matamata

Airbus military transporter cleared for testing

By SLOBODAN LEKIC AP Aviation Writer © 2009 The Associated Press

Nov. 13, 2009, 7:10AM


BRUSSELS — The long-delayed prototype of Airbus' first military transport plane has been moved from the factory for final ground tests before its maiden flight next month, a spokeswoman said Friday.
Barbara Kracht said the testing in Seville, Spain, will involve running up problem-plagued turboprop engines to full power, low- and high-speed taxiing, and aborted takeoffs designed to check all aircraft systems before the first flight.
"All this paves the way for the first flight before the end of the year," Kracht said in a telephone interview.
The four-engine A400M, launched in 2003 with an order for a fleet of 180 planes from seven governments, is Europe's most ambitious collaborative defense project ever. But the euro20 billion ($29 billion) program has been hit by cost overruns and teething problems with the new Europrop International TP400 engines, and the plane's maiden flight has been postponed repeatedly.
Earlier this year defense ministers from the seven nations — Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey — agreed to re-negotiate the contract on the multinational project.
Airbus' A400M is smaller and less capable than the U.S. Boeing C-17 Globemaster II, but it may eventually have greater export potential because it is much cheaper than the U.S. transport plane.
Although Airbus' main production facility is in Toulouse, France, the A400M's final assembly line is in Seville.
It is designed to replace hundreds of smaller Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Franco-German Transall C-160 transports that have served in the inventories of European air forces since the 1960s.
In the meantime, European nations have chartered Antonov An-124 transport aircraft from a Russian-Ukrainian joint-venture to serve as their strategic reserve in supplying troops in Afghanistan.
The new airlifter program was launched in the 1990s in the wake of the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia, when European countries couldn't dispatch peacekeepers to a region right on their own doorstep without American assistance.
The A400M is specifically designed to operate from austere, unpaved and short airstrips. The plane's maximum cargo capacity of 37 tons is nearly double that of its predecessors, and its range of over 6,000 kilometers (3,200 miles) would allow it to fly unrefueled from Europe to forward airstrips in far-flung theaters of operations such as Afghanistan or Africa.
But problems with the engines and the prototype's weight have pushed first deliveries — originally scheduled for 2012 — to slip to 2014.
Although it will be one of the largest turboprop-powered aircraft ever built, the A400M is still dwarfed by the Soviet Antonov An-24 Antei first flown in the 1960s. Several dozen remain in Russian air force service.  

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/6718573.html

matamata

Engine test

matamata

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: 27 Nov 2009 13:08  

PARIS - Airbus' long-delayed A400M military transport will make its first test flight during the week beginning Dec. 7, "weather permitting", the European aircraft manufacturer said Nov. 27.

The A400M was to replace aging military cargo carriers in several European air forces, but its development has been dogged by a series of serious technical problems and its in service date has been pushed from 2009 to 2013.

Some governments have begun to tire of waiting for Airbus to resolve the issues, and French and German officials have given the firm until the end of the year to prove that the project remains viable.

"Ground tests of the first A400M are progressing satisfactorily at our facility. This allows us to anticipate a first flight in the week 50, weather permitting," said Airbus military chairman and managing director Domingo Urena.

When the $28 billion (20 billion euro) A400M project began, it was hoped that a first test flight would be held in 2008 and that air forces would have had the airframe in service by the end of this year.

There is now little hope that the first production models will be delivered by 2012, and none is expected on the world's battlefield airstrips until 2013.

The delays have cost millions and forced Airbus to renegotiate contracts with several customers. South Africa has dropped its order entirely and Britain has mulled switching is business to U.S. manufacturers.

Seven European countries - Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey - have ordered 180 planes between them, in most cases to replace aging Transall and C-130 Hercules transports.

innocentti

http://myhome.cari.com.my/attachment/200911/18/1000342_1258564392Yf97.jpg

harleena Post at 19-11-2009 17:31

smart cockpit dia..dengan control column duduk kat tepi ala2 f16...weawwww

windof

115# innocentti

lebih kurang sama ngan kokpit semua siri airbus 31x, 32x, 330, 340, 350 n 380. good practise by airbus, memudahkan dan memurahkan latihan dan penyenggaraan crew n pesawat.

innocentti

116# windof
aa'h eh, baru aku perasan. tengkiu2..tp mmg canggih siap dengan HUD mcm Mr Kelana cakap..nice!

windof

117# innocentti

sudah semestinya military version lebih canggih dari yg civilian punya....

areguard

Siap ada tray utk pilot enjoy in-flight meal

jazim

Merembes betul tengok a/c ni..